2025 is the 1700 Year Anniversary
of the Council of Nicaea,
where Santa Claus ‘decked’ a heretic and
where ALL of Christianity finds Unity
Did the Nicaean Council finalize the ‘parting of ways?’ No, but it kicked off specific persecution because its Christology was kosher: God from God, Light from Light, the same essence, substance or being as the Father, stands paramount. Athanasius and Arius become prominent in our theology, evidenced by C.S. Lewis's introduction to a reprint of Athanasius 'On the Incarnation,' which demonstrates a reflection completely oblivious to Constantine's machinations.
Does the humanity of Christ require a human? No, evidenced by Theotokos (God-Bearer), a term coined in the pre-Nicene era as kosher yet later developed into the ‘Mother of God’ like ‘begotten’ for the Son as a propositional creedal form that diverts from its Scriptural use, distorting their original meaning through human posits rather than than a respective genre found in scripture.
Since Jesus Christ was a “demigod-king”, why not Constantine? But his Arian team didn’t win in 325 as Homoousios prevailed! Still Constantine’s setback from his Arian stance, including Eusebius, was brief. The theological-political-ecclesial merger was set despite the ‘Kosher’ Christology. Moving to Constantinople in 330 and posting the 50 bibles in 331 he suddenly unleashed his wrath on the Holy Land, where he built the first three basilicas in 333 and, in the footsteps of Antiochus Epiphanius, Constantine compelled Christians to abandon Synagogues and forced them to eat pork at Pascha under the pain of death.
Nicaea exposes today’s Vatican II’s Jewish apology with the ‘Mother Church’ at the center, leveraging Evangelical accommodation and confusion under Rome's hegemony. After all, two of Constantine’s 50 Bibles remain today, thus, the Codexes Vaticanus and Sinaiticus formed a complete text 1700 years ago.
The Old and New Testament divisions refer to Israel's covenantal reception, yet the titles force a faulty paradigm as the New Covenant was already given in Jeremiah after the coerced covenant of Mt. Sinai. In other words, discipleship is the ‘obedience of faith’ and the coercive law is for children. Didn’t Jesus say let the little Children come unto me, including the family dog who benefitted from their proximity like the Syro-Phoenican Woman; examples of Pilgrims.
Was the eventual Chalcedonian Christology purely revelatory alignment? I argue it was theo-poltical. Significantly, the ancient churches Armenia, Syria, and the Copts are Mia/monophysite, as is Ana-Baptist Christology, recognizable as Adam Kadmon (The 2nd Adam). These ‘nations’ never had militant expansionist ways after their Christian conversion.
These Christian nations’ Christologies align much better with Old Testament theophanies, where titles within Judaism and names such as Sar HaPanim, or the Netaiot, manifest as a mediator angelic being, one with the Father (Ein sof Ohr) unapproachable light, manifested as the Spirit hovering above the waters, the One who walked in the cool of the day, and the Root of David.
Finally and why the geneology in Luke 3:38 stands so signifcant: Here the Son of God who with his Heavenly Bride redeems the Sons of Men from their fallen (Nephil ) Cain (Genesis 4:6) ancestry. NOT the myths of Enochian corpus distorting Metatron with The Two Powers in heaven controversy, yet where the victory of Jesus of Nazareth proves Him as the Christ and for which the members of the Sanhedrin tore their garments, yet condemed the innocent Lamb of God for US!
